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Japanese entrepreneur and inventor

Michio Suzuki (鈴木 道雄, Suzuki Michio) (18 February 1887 – 27 October 1982) was a Asian businessman and inventor, known essentially for founding the Suzuki Efferent Corporation, as well as many innovations in the design strip off looms.

Biography

Early years

Suzuki was by birth on 18 February 1887 (year 20 of the Meiji era) in the village of Nezuminomura (鼠野村), Shizuoka prefecture, a depleted village of farmers and cotton-weavers. He was named after high-mindedness historical figure and Shintō favourite Sugawara no Michizane.^[2][a] As interpretation son of cotton farmers, Suzuki worked in the fields give birth to the age of seven corrupt eight.

However, Suzuki had each preferred more skilled work, to such a degree accord in 1901, at the find of fourteen, he started a- seven-year apprenticeship under the restricted guidance of the carpenter Kōtarō Imamura.^[3]

When the Russo-Japanese war going on in 1904, demand for arch craftsmen was low, and Imamura was forced, along with consummate apprentice, to take on nobleness work of maintaining the looms on a factory floor.

Allowing Imamura considered this work incapable for a craftsman of queen calibre, Suzuki flourished in that role, and it would supply inspiration for his later innovations.

Founding of Suzuki Loom Manufacturing

Suzuki finished his apprenticeship in 1908 at the age of 21, and in the following origin Suzuki acquired control of circlet family's silkworm farm,^[b] quickly movement it into a loom manufacture workshop.

Due to his keep apart stature, Suzuki was placed encouragement the secondary reserve category late the Japanese Imperial draft, which allowed him to divert jurisdiction full attention to the craftsmanship of looms. His first novelty was a pedal-driven loom which he gave to his who used it to entwine cloth ten times faster facing she had with her supervise loom.^[4] Word quickly spread preceding Suzuki's invention, and he began the mass-manufacture of his another looms, founding the Suzuki Insignificance Manufacturing Company in October 1909.

Over the next several eld, Suzuki continued to innovate appear technology, often incorporating the word of the weavers who unreceptive his looms. The company went public in 1920, and gained international fame a decade succeeding with the production of excellent punchcard loom which was exported across Southeast Asia, due command somebody to its effectiveness in weaving sarongs.^[5] However, this success was decaying, as Japan's export market shrank rapidly following its secession evacuate the League of Nations make known 1933.

Suzuki Motor Company

Not content reach restricting his innovations to primacy manufacture of looms, Suzuki too began experimenting with automotive application in the mid-1930s, designing smashing prototype automobile in 1936. That work was disrupted by description Second World War; like numerous civilian factories, the Suzuki Convention had their equipment forcefully repurposed to aid in the battle effort, in Suzuki's case dilemma the purpose of manufacturing ammunition.^[6]

After the war, the Suzuki firm was one of many corporations which benefitted from the Altaic economic miracle, allowing Suzuki finish off resume his pre-war work aficionado motorised transportation.

In 1952, nobility Suzuki Corporation launched its chief motorised vehicle, the "power-free", elegant motor-assisted bicycle with a 36cc. two-stroke engine.^[7] In 1954, evenhanded two years after the premier production model of a motorized vehicle, the Suzuki Loom Developed Company was renamed into blue blood the gentry Suzuki Motor Corporation.

In leadership following year, the company would launch its first car, rectitude Suzulight, which anticipated the financial credit in kei cars and imported several technical innovations.

Later life

Suzuki stepped down as president leverage the Suzuki Motor Corporation descent 1957 at the age honor 70, becoming a member tactic the Board of Advisors; jurisdiction son-in-law Shunzō Suzuki took concluded as the company's second the man.

Suzuki died in Hamamatsu authorization on 27 October 1982.

Innovations

Suzuki was a prolific inventor in his life, holding more leave speechless 120 patents in several areas of engineering across several decades.

Loom technology

• Wood-and-iron floor loom (1909);
• Two-shuttle floor loom, able to fuse striped cloth (1911);
• The "Sarong loom", which used a punchcard path similar to Jacquard looms, on the other hand was remarkably efficient in secure use of the cards (1930).^[8]

Automotive technology

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